In his 13th year as leader of Congregation Beis Knesses of Los Angeles, which he founded, Rabbi Elchanan Shoff is launching a ...

In a daring interpretation, classic to the Chassidic approach toward Judaism, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak becomes the great "advocate ...

The fifth weekly biblical portion in Deuteronomy is Shoftim, “Judges.” The rabbis who were descendants of the ancient Pharisees viewed this portion as supporting the Pharisees’ views, rather than ...

Moshe Rabbeinu descended from the mountain holding the Two Tablets — the covenant between G-d and the Jewish people. He ...

וַיִּסֹּ֥ב שְׁמוּאֵ֖ל לָלֶ֑כֶת וַיַּחֲזֵ֥ק בִּכְנַף־מְעִיל֖וֹ וַיִּקָּרַֽע As Samuel turned to leave, Saul seized the corner ...

To celebrate Purim, many Jews bake and eat a pastry called hamantaschen. The three-cornered cookie is named after Haman's hat ...

I admire Hertz’s willingness to engage directly with modern issues relevant to biblical criticism and classical English Bible commentaries, drawing from both Jewish and non-Jewish literary sources to ...

Amalek exploits spiritual weakness; Parashat Zachor calls on us to strengthen our identity and faith in every generation.

Ultimately revealing how the Talmud managed to reverse the meaning of Megillat Esther in the greatest Purim v’nahafoch hu ...

Just as space aliens might benefit from a society rooted in Jewish ideals, so too might humans benefit from the encounter ...

American Jews have always been optimists about antisemitism. From the very beginning, our country has embraced Jews; George Washington, shortly after assuming the presidency, wrote a letter to the ...

Readers of the Bible are thus invited to engage in a double act of moral imagination. First, they must imagine that they themselves, and not merely their ancestors, were redeemed from slavery in Egypt ...